ABSTRACT

GERIATRIC genius is generally regarded as a pretty rare commodity, but of course there are some examples.

Giuseppe Verdi is often cited for his final operas, “Otello” and “Falstaff”; Eugene O’Neill kept his best for last, and, in our own day, Arthur Miller and Ingmar Bergman have plowed on merrily into their ninth decades. So, unknown is isn’t; yet, yes, rare it is.